From March 19th to July 9th, “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017”, an exhibition whose spaces were designed by OPEN, will be held at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). 

OPEN’s Tsinghua Ocean Center in Shenzhen is recently completed after five years’ time from design to construction. Located at the eastern end of Tsinghua graduate school campus in Shenzhen Xili University Town, it was designed for the newly established deep-ocean research base of Tsinghua University. Science, Humanity and Nature are the three main themes of the design. While accomplishing all the lab and office functions, abundant social spaces were injected into this energetic ‘vertical campus’. 

Interior Design’s 2016 Best of Year Awards ceremony was held on December 1st at the IAC Building in New York. OPEN Architecture’s HEX-SYS project was selected as the Winner of the Green Architecture category, among three other finalists including Gensler, Perkins+Will and Mithun.

Interior Design's Best of Year Award is the design industry’s premiere design prize, honoring the most significant work of the year as well as recognizing designers, architects and manufacturers from around the globe. Now celebrating its 11th year, Interior Design's Best of Year has become the ultimate measure of design excellence, showcasing what's happening at the cutting-edge in every category of design while simultaneously setting the design bar even higher for the future.

The Locus Design Forum 2016 opened in Dongdaemoon Design Plaza in Seoul, Korea on October 10th. In the exhibition, OPEN presented a hand-crafted book ‘A DIALOGUE AT THE SEA’.

This is 'a book of two books', which opens up from the middle. It attempts to construct a poetic conversation between two projects: the seaside art spaces in Aranya.  OPEN’s founding partner Huang Wenjing presented on the opening ceremony and explained the design concept and philosophy behind the book. 

The theme of Locus Design Forum 2016 is ‘the creative gap between book and architecture’. The exhibition will last till November 9, 2016. 

Recently, Shanghai organized an international competition for the new Art Museum of Pudong. The site of the project is located at a prominent spot on the tip of Pudong’s Lujiazui CBD area directly below the Oriental Pearl Tower. Looking across Huangpu River from the Bund, the iconic skyline of Lujiazui has been such a symbolic image of modern Shanghai that any addition or alteration to this image is extremely sensitive. So the site has been deliberately left vacant for years, awaiting a significant cultural institute and meaningful contribution to the urban life at the megapolis. 

The competition consisted of two rounds, OPEN along with SANAA, Jean Nouvel and David Chipperfield progressed to the second round. 

OPEN’s project HEX-SYS has been selected as one of the Best 2015 by Archilovers, “as it upholds our high standards for aesthetics, functionality and creativity”. It is one of the most 'loved' out of the 50,000 projects published on Archilovers website last year. 

OPEN Wishes You a Happy New Year!

OPEN’s founding partner Huang Wenjing was invited to give a lecture at Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University in Australia. Huang’s lecture took the structure of OPEN’s new book – OPEN ReAction, which introduced OPEN’s practice and thinking in recent years. Meanwhile, OPEN’s cinematic installation at Chicago Architecture Biennial kicked off its World Graduate School Tour at Bond.

OPEN’s first book “OPEN ReAction” was published by China Architecture & Building Press. This book belongs to the Chinese Architecture Book Series II. By inserting 6 ideas between 7 realized projects of OPEN, we would like to make a manifesto of the basic attitude and starting point of OPEN’s practice in this book.

The cinematic installation titled OPEN ReAction, as part of the Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, was officially open to public on October 3rd, 2015. The exhibition is located in the ground floor lobby of the Expo 72 building (72 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601), across street from the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibition will last till January 03, 2016.

In the films, shot and edited by Spirit of Space, the visual narrative is built around three key topics, as embodied by four of OPEN Architecture’s built projects: China and its urban dynamics, the process of architectural creation, and poetry through behavior.